Category: Law & Politics

Matt Ferner lists the 13 reasons 2013 has been the best year ever for marijuana (and it’s consumers).

And then there were four. Famed marijuana cultivation expert Ed Rosenthal, the “Guru of Ganja,” announced Friday that he was filing The Cannabis Policy Reform Act of...

A new poll found that resistance to marijuana legalization is continuing to fall.

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Indigenous Medicine, Salinda Dissanayake, announced that he will introduce a bill to legalize marijuana.

Following the Wednesday release of a national survey on teen drug use, sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) called...

Cannabis Culture reports that Colorado’s medical marijuana patient annual registration fee will drop from $35 to just $15 early next year. The fee was $90 in 2011.

One of our rituals in the United States is the annual release of two major national surveys of drug use — the National Survey on Drug Use...

Jacob Sullum recounts the story of a New Mexico woman that was taken against her will and fruitlessly probed by drug warriors and their ‘medical’ helpers.

Time reports that Washington residents smoke more weed than officials estimated, with new numbers more than doubling the old estimates.

Washington’s Liquor Control Board released its official recommendations for medical cannabis regulations.

Oregon’s plan to regulate dispensaries statewide moves ahead, Washington state looks like it will let medical marijuana patients keep their personal grows, a new national certification program...

RFID Journal gives a great description of Colorado’s RFID (radio frequency identification) system for tracking marijuana from seed to sale.

This year’s annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey on the habits of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders was released Wednesday, and most of the results were uncontroversial. But with...

Canadian regulations are restricting industry growth, according to the Hemp Trade Alliance.

A new poll finds that higher education is linked to higher support for cannabis legalization.

This story of cannabis woe out of West Chester, PA caught my eye. The claim is that James Kiesling, a once smart and promising young man with a...

Last Thursday’s marijuana banking meeting in Washington DC has industry leaders in Colorado hopeful, but anxious.

As part of my/our ongoing quest to combat misleading, incomplete, or down right bad “facts” about marijuana, I recently found myself perusing the cannabis page at Above...

BuzzFeed’s Rachel Zarrell describes 7 big advocates that have been working hard for marijuana reform in New York City.

New York lawmaker Steve Katz, who voted against MMJ then got a ticket for possession, has joined the ArcView Group of investors.